PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight kickboxing rules bout between Ray Mancini (ranked 4217 p4p, 358 weight class) and Jean Labosky (ranked 4200 p4p, 356 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Mancini
vs
Labosky

178 cm
34
96 lbs
22 - 24 - 0

182 cm
40
155 lbs
18 - 38 - 0

World class boxer
Insanely flexible

World class MT
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 22 - 24 - 0, fighting out of New York, Ray Mancini!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 18 - 38 - 0, fighting out of New York, Jean Labosky!
The judges for this bout are Tiny Johnson, Stewart Dunkirk and Wesley Smith.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Labosky fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Mancini, pushing him back against the ropes.
Mancini looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!
Mancini fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Labosky landing knees to the head.

Labosky breaks from the clinch.
Some wild striking there from Labosky.
Labosky wants to clinch.
Mancini throws a lazy right hand but Labosky sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Labosky tries to clinch up.
Labosky tries to clinch up.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Mancini misses with a series of wild punches.
Mancini has been working on his boxing with his coaches at Ferocious beast in the buildup to the fight.
Labosky uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Mancini has time to react.

Mancini is rocked!
Mancini on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Oh Mancini is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!

Mancini gets tackled into the ropes by Labosky. Labosky maintains the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Labosky has Mancini pressed against the ropes.
Mancini misses with a hook from the clinch.

Labosky pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.

Labosky has closed the distance and engaged Mancini in a clinch.

Labosky breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Mancini walks straight into a perfectly timed right hook, crumpling him to the floor! Mancini is in all kinds of trouble here - can he beat the count? 3,4,5,6,7,8,9....10 - he's out and it's by a long way too - he didn't ever look like beating that count!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:21 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Jean Labosky!